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Thursday, 29 December 2016

From the seventh term onwards, students begin long poses with the live model, painted in color. Each student paints a pose with Maestro Michael John Angel and Jered Woznicki as their individual instructors.

In the photo, William Yeats Irhig has begun to render his painting, putting final textures, values, colors, and details in place.

Thursday, 15 December 2016

Congratulations to all prize winners and finalists in the 2016 ARC Salon! The Angel Academy of Art is not only proud to sponsor the Still Life category of the Salon, but also to have so many of our students and alumni as finalists!

Representing the Academy:

Xavier Denia Valls

Nancy Fletcher

Bruno Galuzzi Corsini

Eleni Giannopoulou

Rusudana Glonti

Masako Kazue

Teresa Oaxaca

Michele Prezioso

Maliha Qureshi

Travis Seymour

Nik Anikis Skusek

Vicki Sullivan

Jesper Sundwall

Moritaka Suzuki

Juan Salvador Zarate

Thank you all for your beautiful work and for representing our school so well!! Congratulations again!

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

In the fifth term at the Angel Academy, students study the Grisaille method in the figure room which allows students to become familiar with paint under the time constraints of working with the live model. This is their second of two five week paintings.

Here, the students have put the first impression of value and form in the light shapes, which the school coins: Big Form Modeling.

Thursday, 17 November 2016

When students reach their 6th term our senior instructor, Jered Woznicki, gives a detailed "Paint Along" lecture and demo on the basics of color painting from supplies and preparing a palette to creating form.

In this term students create two day color studies of various limbs to familiarize themselves with the Angel palette and basic color theory before moving on to the full figure in the next term.

It was the worst flood in Florence since 1557. The River Arno rose more than 10m above its normal level, engulfing the Ponte Vecchio and swept through jewellers’ shops on the 14th-century bridge. The historic city center also suffered damage, particularly to the Ghiberti doors of the baptistery.

The 1966 flood in Florence killed 101 people and damaged or destroyed millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.

Below is a video collection of images from the flood to offer a visual of the profound impact the flood had on Florence. It certainly wasn’t a warm welcome for our Maestro, who arrived in Florence only four months after flooding began.

Sunday, 28 August 2016

You can follow this link to watch the RAI episode of Campus Italia that features the Angel Academy of Art! We hope you'll enjoy this look into our school. The episode features interviews with MaestroMichael John Angel and featured students and teachers.

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Academy of Realist Art, Boston has finished hosting its second annual Figure Painting Competition and has announced Angel Academy of Art, Florence alumnus, Cesar Santos, as the grand prize, and viewer's choice, winner!

The competition spanned over five days with ten big name artists from all over the world. Santos's winning painting is pictured below:

Sunday, 24 July 2016

Angel Academy alumnaSavannah Tate Cuff, who is in her second-year of post-graduate work at Jacob Collins's Grand Central Atelier in New York City, has taken home the $10,000 grand prize of the aforementioned atelier's annual figure drawing competition.

The competition had eleven participants that drew the live model for 40 hours in the span of just five days. GCA founder and renowned artist, Jacob Collins was the primary judge of the competition. Also judging was Jordan Sokol, the academic director of The Florence Academy of Art in the United States, and Katie Wipple, a GCA alumna - each great teachers and painters in their own right.

Thursday, 30 June 2016

The 2015-2016 year has come to an end and we would be remiss if we didn't congratulate our graduating students this term! Nik Anikis, Julie Nord, and Saara Kauhanen have all completed the program. Complementi ragazzi! We'll miss you!

Saturday, 25 June 2016

In the last week of school the RAI, the Italian state television, filmed at the Angel Academy for a programme called Campus Italia that features vocational schools in Italy. The cameraman braved a packed cast room, a hot day of en plein air, and the busy figure rooms for the featurette.

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Sir Frederic Leighton's masterpiece 'Flaming June' will go on display at the London’s Leighton House museum this winter! The painting will be on loan from a collection in Puerto Rico and will remain there into the spring.

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

It looks like Angel Academy's AlumnusMatthewGrabelsky's show at Thinkspace Gallery (Culver City, Los Angeles) was a great success! We cannot wait to see more of Matthew's work in the future. Keep us updated, Matt, and congratulations!!

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Monday night was the opening of "Dignity Through Art" at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, which featured local artists who sought to highlight the needs of those marginalized, homeless or needy people in Florence to tell their stories and honour their essential human dignity. The show will run from 16/05 to 26/05.

The Angel Academy was represented well by students and teachers alike! John Skelcher, Yang Ying, James Tucker, Ashish Patel, Hayley Brown, Masako Kazue, and Stephen Citynskyj all made work for the exhibit. It was a packed house - great show everyone!!

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About the Academy

The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, offers an intensive programme in traditional drawing and painting. One of the very few such institutions in the world, the Angel Academy offers a curriculum designed to produce the highest calibre of professional artists, equipped to be leaders in the emerging renaissance of classic, realist painting.